Belonostomus helgolandicus

No picture of Belonostomus helgolandicus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Belonostomus helgolandicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BelonostomusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Aspidorhynchidae
Life habit
nektonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Aspidorhynchidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Aspidorhynchidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Aspidorhynchidae

Time the record covers

At most 1.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 119.57 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous121–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121.9 Mya119.07 Mya

2 occurrences of Belonostomus helgolandicus on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

2 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Belonostomus helgolandicus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Belonostomus helgolandicus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

13 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Belonostomus helgolandicus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Belonostomus helgolandicus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Belonostomus helgolandicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Belonostomus helgolandicus was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBelonostomus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Taverne and Ross 1973